Safety-pin



F. E. BARTLETL SAFETY PIN. APPLICATION man SEPT-14., 1 917.

1,334,277. Patented Mar. 1920.

FRED BARTLETT, OF 'WAIERBURY, CtTiNIl'EC'lIUUT. I

IGNOIR. T AMERICAN PIN SAFETYJPIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 1920.

Application filed September 1 1, 1917. Serial No. 191,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED E. Ben'rw'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in l Vaterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Safety Pins, of which, the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety pins and more particularly to the guard used on thecoiled end of said safety The obJect of this mvent on s to make a safety pin guard of a single p1ece of suitable material of such contour that it can be folded around the coil and the base ways have the pointed leg closed within the shield, and when it is desired to place the form of guard. now used on the coil, it is necessary to open the pin, adjust the guard to position and then clench the guard on the coil after which the pin is closed for further finishing operations.

The present invention is designed to over come the necessity of opening and closing the pin in order to apply the guard thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the safety pin, having guards thereon.

With these and other objects in view I have devised and made a guard for safety pin coils which will hereinafter be described in detail and the features of merit pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a view of the guard blank.

Fig. 2 shows the blank in position on the coil part of said blank being dotted in folded position.

Fig. 3 shows the completion of Fig. 2 with another part of the blank dotted in folded position.

Fig. 4 shows the guard folded and. clenched in proper position on the coil.

Fig. 5 shows the reverse side of the coil with the guard in attached position.

Fig. 6 is an edge view of the guard in. linal position. 011 the coil.

In the drawings 1 is the leg of a safety pin which carries the shield or cap 2, with the coil 3 formed at the other end, said coil being continued in the usual manner to form the pointed leg 1. The particular shape, style and size of safety pin is not material to the present invention as the guard herein described is applied to pins having coils as herein shown.

The blank forming the guard 7 is preferably stamped out of a fiat piece of suitable material in the form of a disk, but cut away at 8 to form a lip or tongue 9 as shown in 1* ig. 1. The application of the guard to the coil will be more readily understood by referring to Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 2 shows the blank in position to be applied, that ready for the clenching the same to the coil. The first movement will be to fold the tongue 9 around the leg 1 the blank being so positiozu-ad that the cut away portion will permit the leg 4.: to project therethrough after the tongue 9 has been folded as shown in dotted lines. The blank will then be as shown in full lines in Fig. 3, that is ready to have the portion 10 of the blank folded over so that it will engage the top of the leg land position itself in the manner shown in dotted lines. The tongue 9 and the portion 1.0 having been folded into their positions they are clenched around the leg 4: and the coil 3 in the manner shown in Flgs. 4-. and 5'.

It; should be understood that the blank when folded to form the guard in the manner described, completely surrounds the leg l. at the coil end, the tongue 9 and the portion 10 covering both coils of wire in the manner shown in. Fig. ('3, thereby making it .j

impossible for the fabric when engaged by leg 4. being caught in the coil 8. It should be further understood that the guard when attached to the coil, in the position shown in Figs. 4.- and 5, is free to move on the coil in response to the opening and closing of the leg l.

Claims:

1. A guard. for safety pins, comprising a single piece of fiat material of disk like formation, a portion of said disk cut away to form a notch near the center of said disk and a tongue extending from the notch to the peripheral line of said disk, Withdisk body and tongue adapted to be folded in a Inanner to embrace the coil end of a safety p111. v

2. In combination with a safety pin having a, shield covered leg and a free leg With a coil between said legs, of a single piece of flat material of disk like shape, cut away on one side to forin a notch and a tongue and.

adapted to be folded in a manner to have 10 the free leg rest in the notch, the tongue embrace the single portion of the coil and the main part of the disk embrace the double side of the fold, for the purpose described.

FRED E. BARTLETT. 

